Quotes about Conviction

a person who thinks should not try to persuade others to his belief; that is what puts him on the road to a system; on the lamentable road of the man of conviction; politicians like to call themselves that; but what is a conviction? It is a thought that has come to a stop, that has congealed, and the man of conviction is a man restricted.

Do you think that people will obey the truth because it is true, unless they love it? No, they will not. Truth is obeyed when it is loved.

They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

This is the basic principle that underlies most religion, psychology, philosophy, and metaphysics. This law says, "Whatever you believe, with conviction, becomes your reality.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principle that they are laboring to dethrone: but if they argue without reason (which, in order to be consistent with themselves they must do), they are out of reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.

Our job is to stand up for our beliefs, cling to them no matter what, and wait for our redemption. Jesus will not let us down. I

Faith is never identical with piety.

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

Faith is never identical with "piety" even if it were the purest and finest.

Everyone who has to contend with unbelief should be advised that he ought not to take his own unbelief too seriously.

Rhetoric uses syllogisms and other suasions to bring about a change of heart and of mind.